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This decay process leads to a more balanced nucleus and when the number of protons and neutrons balance, the atom becomes stable.This radioactivity can be used for dating, since a radioactive 'parent' element decays into a stable 'daughter' element at a constant rate.That only worked for sedimentary rocks, and only some of those.Rocks of Precambrian age had only the rarest wisps of fossils.The discovery gave scientists a tool for dating rocks that contain radioactive elements.Many elements have naturally occurring isotopes, varieties of the element that have different numbers of neutrons in the nucleus.

For more than a hundred years the best method of arranging its history was the use of fossils or biostratigraphy.The igneous activity that produced such intrusions......calculation was based on the assumption that the substance of the Earth is inert and thus incapable of producing new heat.The rate of decay (given the symbol λ) is the fraction of the 'parent' atoms that decay in unit time.For geological purposes, this is taken as one year.

Today, with the help of isotopic dating methods, we can determine the ages of rocks nearly as well as we map the rocks themselves.